Long Live 'The Smile Revolution'

The (-: Buddhist...: Smile always... Send Metta!

UPCOMING DEADLINES and other important information.

This post will always remain at the top of the blog, and will be updated each week with upcoming deadlines and other important information. Note that anything underlines can be clicked on, bringing you to the Exercise/Project/Post in question.


The final class for this course was on Monday, April 7. Have a great summer!

A Thank You and An Invitation

Thank you for being such a talented, dynamic, engaged and occasionally challenging class! Tori and I very much enjoyed getting to know you all. Feel free to keep in touch: we can be found at www.jessecolinjackson.com and www.torifoster.com.

Last but not least, we'd like to invite you to our opening on May 1, 2008. Our photographs, which form just a small part of a larger Gladstone Hotel exhibit, are collectively entitled Timespace. An excerpt from our show text and some sample images are shown below.

Tori Foster, Jesse Jackson and Jon Reed explore alternative, singular ways of representing our experience of time in space. Each employs a technique that combines visual information from multiple frames into a single, synthetic image. Tori Foster creates low-fidelity portraits of movement through a two-dimensional plane over the span of several seconds. Jesse Jackson presents experiential narratives through the compilation of a linear sequence of moments into surreal, dynamic compositions. Jon Reed captures the essential character, experience and memory of a particular city street by layering successive images taken at regular intervals.

Hopefully we'll see you there. Otherwise, have a great summer.

-Jesse and Tori

Jesse's Activate Photos (finally!)

Canvas Cake Award

Our class would like to congratulate the Canvas Cake group for making it to the top 3 of our favourite experiences presented at Activate: Experiments in Experience Design. Your experience was without a doubt very interactive, fun and delicious! Our class would like to give you this prize which symbolizes the power of teamwork because it is strong teamwork that lead your class to create one of the most compelling experiences at Activate.


Well done!

Mirror Mirror Award!

Beautiful recycled flowers from paper and glow sticks!

The top award of "Activate: Experiments in Experience Design" on behalf of our class goes to -->

!!! Mirror Mirror !!!

For being the most interactive, accessible

and self-explanatory installation.

We enjoyed it very much, Tx for the Experience!

The "Stick It" Project

We wanted to put them in a display case for you, but they're all booked, so these pictures will have to do. . .

Mirror Mirror price and more!

Hey everyone,

First thing first - I submitted our project to the OCAD Retro-show, hopefully we'll get in and we could be proud! (as well as put it in our resume), I'll keep you updated with good news...


Here is our price (Ann, Alex & myself):
Beautiful recycled flowers from paper and glow sticks!

The first price of "Activate: Experiments in Experience Design" on behalf of our class goes to -->

!!! Mirror Mirror !!!

For being the most interactive, accessible

and self-explanatory installation.

We enjoyed it very much, Tx for the Experience!

The "Stick It" Project

The display case on 5th floor is taken, so we'll think about something else.

Oh, and the jumping rope :)

PDF File of STICK IT

Hey Guys,
The PDF file from Documentation is ready for uploading.
If you'd like the high resolution version, please contact me at eve.zorawski@gmail.com and I will give it to you.

STICK IT! download

Award for Inside Out Food

To be emailed to Martin Stevens class:

"Congradulations, You have won this cartoon-card from our class for being the most insightful and thought provoking installation at Activate!"

Stick it! the movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d3Yc8mfFqs



its been stuck.


follow this link to download the film from SENDUIT
http://senduit.com/a79a5e

Susan's Photos

Hi Class:

I've been having some trouble with my computer, and haven't been able to upload my photos yet. My apologies.

Susan Gorbet was kind enough to provide me with her photos, some of which you've already seen in class.

http://picasaweb.google.com/slkgorbet/OCADActivate
http://picasaweb.google.com/slkgorbet/OCADActivateExtras

I look forward to the Aftermath aftermath next week! Remember, next week is our last class, and any loose ends must be tied up by then.

MATERIALS

RECYCLING GROUP!
we are meeting today thurs april 3. amy and myself will be at 113 mcaul on the fourth floor where the tables and computers are. we will be there at 2pm.


materials list

suits : Recycling Group
tubing : Recycling Group
glowsticks : Gift group #1
metal casing : Amanda? Ann?
three by fours : Jesse
navy fabric : Ann
pipecleaners : Gift Group #2?

can someone let me (marlissa) know who has the pipecleaners.
ann and zunera: i found some extra glowsticks as i was leaving tonight, do you need them for your gift or would you like me to recycle them.

please make comments on this post to let me know (pipecleaners + glowsticks!!)

oh! and if i missed anything please post it

Activate Aftermath Groups

Hi class:

Here are the groups for the Activate aftermath.


Documentation

Leigh
Eve
Jenny
Milena
Amanda

The documentation team will create a video and a downloadable PDF, all of which will be available via the blog.


Recycling

Priscilla
Heejin
Song
Amy
Marlissa

The recycling team will figure out what do with all of the waste material our experience generated. Ideally, material will be redeployed, perhaps as prizes. The recycling team will also post a document to the blog that lists all items used (with quantities) and how they were recycled.


Prize for Inside Out Food

Adam
Nicole
Robert

Prize for Big Cake

Zach
Andrey
Emily

Prize for Mirror Mirror

Inbal
Ann
Alex


The prize teams will create named prizes (ie "most engaging," or "least wasteful") for the listed experience. The team should make a blog post elaborating on why the experience in question deserves the prize, and detailing what they're giving the class in celebration.

Banafsheh will also be posting a breakdown of expenses and providing refunds as appropriate. If you haven't brought $25 yet, please do so next week.

Stick IT!

As requested by Adam: here are some of my photos
I'm holding off showing all of them, just because we wanted to make a film and show it for the last class as a kind of "finalization" and goodbye... Also because we love everyone dearly and want it to be a fun surprise. But these I couldn't resist posting. ENJOY!

An IMPORTANT message from DOCUMENTATION

HEY GUYS!
Our event turned out fantastic! I got a lot of good feedback from other students and even professors.

I managed to take a lot of photographs and the rest of the documentation team has also managed to catch the action by other means. So far so good!

We would like everyone to send ALL and any documentation you might have of your contribution to the project. Please forward this to my email at: ez07te@student.ocad.ca BEFORE SATURDAY AT 12:00PM so that we can put together everything in time.

The documentation team has also devised that the best means of submitting the final documentation is posting it as a .pdf file on the blog so that anyone who wishes to have it, will be able to acquire it. We will do our best to get it on the blog before this coming class.

Wow, what a day!

Eve

Today is the big day!!!

Hey everyone, hope to see most of you today at 11:30, we will need as many people as possible, don't trust that "other student" will come - it's not a large class, so if you Can make it - be there!

Yesterday a small group of people worked very hard and maneged to do all the suits, the room team worked really nice and set up everything perfectly!

Camera team - as Adam told you yesterday we found out new things, the great hall is not ours to use and we will need to modify our plans, I suggest coming earlier!!!

We made a trial yesterday and it looks great - so come with confidence...

Don't forget you "stick it" pins and 25 $.
Look at the schedule for today and be responsible!!!

See you soon - Inbal

Projector Needs?

It occurred to me that I may need to book the projector for you . . . someone please let me know what I need to do! I can come down and sign you out a projector tonight for testing if necessary.

Can Someone Move the Stick Men in the Great Hall?

In case I failed to mention it, your stick men are awesome. I've been getting lots of compliments from other instructors.

One problem - the ones in the Great Hall need to be moved to make room for someone else's installation. Could some-one please redistribute them? I've told the other class to carefully take them down and put them in 274 if you don't get to them first.

Tuesday Morning Message from Jesse

Hi Class:

Things are coming together nicely! Great effort from most of you over the weekend. I know that some of your efforts seem like they were for naught, but we wouldn't have made such fruitful decisions if the weekend's experiments hadn't taken place.

Anyone who is lost and feels like they have nothing to do should contact Inbal (shinbala@gmail.com) or Adam (adammarkoliver@hotmail.com). Remember, your Project Three mark is largely determined by your active participation. There's still lots to do.

I have submitted your description to the other instructors, with the following disclaimer.

Section 6 will be occupying room 274 (the ex- student lounge), and some of the seating area directly adjacent to 274. They plan to rear-project onto translucent coro-plast panels that will be mounted between the large column and the wall adjacent to 274. No part of their installation will infringe on the Great Hall.

I'm concerned that you're not allocating enough time on Wednesday morning. If you've got everything ready to go on Tuesday night, then perhaps 11:30 is early enough. . . but make sure you've got everything ready to go. Remember, stuff will take 3 times longer than you think it will, and the Great Hall will be a big mess on Wednesday. In my opinion, you should be able to start setting nearly everything up Tuesday night. You've got a lot of technology to troubleshoot - you should try to do a trial run on Tuesday night if possible.

Once things are set up, I recommend that someone volunteer to "guard" your installation, especially on Wednesday morning from 8:30AM onwards.

Please be considerate when making modifications to the room, and please be considerate with regards to the other installations that will soon be surrounding you. Make sure that whatever you do prior to 11:30 on Wednesday doesn't affect any other instructor/class. Trust me - I'll hear about it, and then you'll hear about it.

I won't be able to check the blog again until 7PM, so give me a call if you need anything. My phone may be off, but I'll check my messages periodically. 647.201.4255.

-Jesse

summery of todays class!

Hey everyone,

The S U I T team and the R O O M team are meeting tomorrow. Any other person who can come and help is very welcome (Amanda, Leigh, I think you said you can come...).

We will meet tomorrow at 1:30 pm in the room we were in today (274). If you have a class you can come later.

On Wednesday we will meet at 11:30 to build everything and meet together at 4:30 pm to wrap-up the room. If you have a class you don't need to explain anything, just do you best to come.

Last thing is the schedule for the event, please be on time, and be prepare to stay 10 minutes later if someone don't make it...

Don't forget 25$ for Wednesday unless you brought today.